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A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:09
The classic Harlem Renaissance novel by Ella Larsen about the American delusion of race is beautifully adapted by Rebecca Hall.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:31
Claire Denis’ latest film explores one of her important themes: how desire in man-woman relationships is more complicated than we often assume.
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 03:35
Alfred Hitchcock made this appeal to join the fight against Hitler a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now this film is valued for being one ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 05:48
In the history of Indian film, there’s a dividing line between approximately the first forty years of the movie industry, and the release, in 1955,...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:33
A gripping drama based on real events that occurred during the Serbian attack on Bosnia in 1995 brings home to us the nightmare of modern war.
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:18
The yearning and frustrations of two teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand leads to tragedy, in this wildly expressive film based on an actual murder ...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:23
A Finnish woman on a Russian train is aggravated by the man with which she’s forced to share a compartment: an insensitive young tough guy with a c...
- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 03:12
The meanings that we access through works of art are not confined to the conscious intentions of the artists. This critical truth came to mind whil...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 03:29
A spellbinding portrait of an elderly couple in crisis, the wife suffering from dementia, the husband unable to cope, in a film composed entirely i...
- Added: Aug 03, 2022
- Length: 03:22
Artist and director Ulrike Ottinger presents her recollections of living and working in Paris in the 1960s.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 03:23
After the success of the massive two-part crime film Dr. Mabuse in 1922, Fritz Lang and screenwriter Thea von Harbou, now husband and wife, embarke...
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 02:52
Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 03:29
Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 03:25
One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:49
A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:38
The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: 04:45
Among filmmakers of recent times who have had something important to say about the world predicament, a special place is held by Emir Kusturica, a ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 03:29
It’s hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since Hal Hartley’s film Trust came out. At the time it looked like Hartley was going to be one of...
- Added: Sep 10, 2020
- Length: 03:17
There was an all-too brief renaissance in American film in the 1970s, when writers and directors were free to experiment with radically different s...
- Added: Aug 26, 2020
- Length: 03:18
The screwball comedy was a special kind of a film that flourished in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. It featured zany, no-holds-barred dialogue and...
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 03:15
Loulou, a 1980 film by French director Maurice Pialat, tells of an upper middle class woman named Nelly (played by Isabelle Huppert), who grows tir...
- Added: Aug 08, 2020
- Length: 03:51
One of the recurring motifs in Alfred Hitchcock’s films concerns a woman who suspects a loved one of being a monster. In his 1936 film Sabotage, th...
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 03:28
I’ve spoken on this show before about the Armenian-born Soviet filmmaker Sergei Paradjanov, who directed the groundbreaking film Shadows of Forgott...
- Added: Jul 22, 2020
- Length: 03:32
Sometimes when I revisit a good film, I start to notice a few flaws which lower my regard for the movie a little bit. But that didn’t happen on a r...
- Added: Jul 09, 2020
- Length: 03:30
